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Matt Fichman
Matt Fichman

Reputation: 5696

Can you use a custom DNS server within EC2?

I need to set up a custom DNS server within EC2. I have one instance that acts as the DNS server, and N other instances that use this DNS server to connect to one another. Is this posible? Basically, I need to modify the DHCP settings for the N instances so that they connect to the DNS server. I can't find any good documentation on modifying the DHCP settings for an instance.

Note: I did find some documents, but they seem to only apply to Amazon VPC. Is there any way to do this without using VPC?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1753

Answers (1)

Pete - MSFT
Pete - MSFT

Reputation: 4309

Short answer - no. You need a VPC. But once you have the VPC created - you can effectively do whatever you like with it.

Long answer - traditional AWS hosting gets an address directly from Amazon. This means you've got no control whatsoever of the IP addresses.

New accounts however come with a VPC by default, which means you can install a machine to act as a DNS server. (And I've done this in the past using Windows Active Directory)

Upvotes: 3

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